Matter bridge, with Shelly, or non Matter devices

Matter is a smart home standard currently being developed by a consortium of over two hundred companies, including big players such as Apple, Google, Phillips, Amazon and Samsung.

Many new devices have Matter implemented, from the beginning, but devices, such as most of Shelly devices don't. On the other hand many hubs can be upgraded to Matter support. For example an Apple TV.

With a Matter bridge you can solve the incompability. This post will use Matter bridge plugin Manager and the Shelly plugin but it could be other devices shown in the picture below.

Intro 

Another way, talking about Shelly devices, could be to flash them yourself.

To run the Matter bridge you need either a Node.js environment or Docker installed on your system and some Matter hub. In my case it's an AppleTV.

Installation

There are nice instructions for the installation of the manager. After you have run the command 

matterbridge

you can access the WEB interface at your 

host, port 8283  http://test.local:8283

At the end of the row below ”Install add plugin” click on the 3 dots and you will get a list of avaiable plugins.

I added ”matter bridge-shelly" and then the software scans your network an adds the found devices.

Now you can add the Matter bridge to your Home app, scanning the QR code on the website, and then you adding the detected Shelly devices.

Autostart 

The setup for Linux systemd is found here.